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[โ€“] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

This is good thing for the dozen or so people benefiting from our unlimited funding to defense contractors and of course a bad thing for literally everyone else.

[โ€“] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

$200M is a lot of (insulin, textbooks, fresh vegetables, vaccines, literally-insert-almost-anything-here). it was wasted the moment it left the factory.

[โ€“] pulido 3 points 1 day ago

All money wasted just so the US can support israel.

[โ€“] NewDark 12 points 1 day ago

It's worse than that. Flushing away $200M would be more useful given those weapons destroy and kill.